The
mission of the Chimes is to provide information and ideas to support teaching
and learning at Clark College

Issue
#13 November 21, 2003

New
York Times Historical Database , 1851-1999

Cannell Library's newest online resource is the New
York Times Historicaldatabase, available via the
ProQuest search interface. NYT Historical provides cover-to-cover
searching of the NYT and all the supplements from 1851-1999.
The current three years of the NYT are available in ProQuest
Direct. You can choose to view an individual article as a "clipping"
(in pdf format) or you can view the entire page. Give it a try!

ProQuest
Adds More Newspapers

In
addition to the New York Times (current three years) and 20 Washington/Oregon
newspapers, ProQuest recently added the following titles to the National
Newspapers Collection:

Christian
Science Monitor:
1988 - current

Los
Angeles Times: 1985-current

Wall
Street Journal
(Eastern edition): 1984 - current

The
Washington Post:
1987 - 1996

Resources
for Your Students: Presentation Tips

Many
thanks to Dave Koslowski, Speech, and Mary Evens, BTEC, for allowing
us to link to their excellent resources:

Also
in this list is a PowerPoint
Start-up Tutorial from the Reference Librarians. [Path: Library Home
Page --> "How Do I" (left bar) --> scroll down to "Organize
and Present Information."]

"I
can't use InfoTrac. I have to find a real article."

Please
help us spread the word to students: InfoTrac and ProQuest have the
genuine articles!

InfoTrac
and ProQuest are two subscription databases that provide electronic
access to full-text articles in scholarly journals, popular magazines
and newspapers, all of which have a print counterpart. Some articles
are available in plain text version, but many are available as pdf images
taken from the actual periodical.

Off-campus
access is available 24/7. Students login using their student ID ("940
number"). For the near future, faculty login using their social
security number, but that login will change in the near future -- we'll
keep you posted.

Poetry
Reading by Tod Marshall

You
are invited to the Cannell Room on Thursday,
December 4, at 1:00 to hear poet Tod Marshall,
whose poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews have been widely published.
His first collection of poetry, Dare Say, won the University
of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series. His collection of interviews
with American poets, Range of the Possible, has been named
to the New York Public Library's poetry list for 2003. He has won numerous
awards for his writing, including a Washington GAP grant and recognition
as the Wilson Visiting Poet at Albion College (previous recipients include
Gwendolyn Brooks, Gary Snyder, and Galway Kinnell). Marshall lives in
Spokane, Washington, and teaches at Gonzaga University. [Thanks to Jim
Finley, English, for providing the photo and copy.]

TILT
Just Keeps Getting Better!

Using
the great feedback we received from faculty and students, we are nearly
finished with the "first wave" of improvements to TILT, The
Information Literacy Tutorial. Jessica Evans, English, volunteered to
make some technical improvements -- she slowed down the "Think
Fast" game and added a text option to the Internet section. We've
also added descriptive text to the module selection page, added a menu
to the beginning of each module so students can jump to specific sections,
and and updated references to the book catalog. The revised TILT will
be loaded and ready for use by the beginning of Winter Quarter.

Reminders
About Reserves

Materials
currently on reserve for classes that will not be taught during the
Winter quarter will be returned to instructors after December
12th.

For
Winter quarter reserves: Only items submitted before December
29th will be ready for student use when classes begin January
5th.

For
complete information about reserves, visit the library's web page
(www.clark.edu/library) and select About the Library.

Questions
about reserves or video bookings? Please give Krista a call at x2553.